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“I know,” Shane whispers back.
I’ve never seen Conor looking so nervous before and I’m about to call him over to me but we’re interrupted by the door opening and a woman with honey blonde hair and a huge smile practically bounces into the room.
“Jessie?” she says to me.
“Yeah,” I reply with a smile because her joy is infectious.
She closes the door behind her and then makes her way straight to me, holding out her hand. “I’m Dr. Stein. But you can call me Brooke.”
“Hi, Brooke.” I take her offered hand. “Thank you for squeezing us in today.”
“Well, Lisa is my homegirl, so I’m always happy to help her out,” she says with a smile. Then she looks around the room at the brothers. “And these must be your husbands?” she asks and I heave a sigh of relief that Lisa has explained our situation. It’s not that I feel any shame about our set up, but it can be hard to explain to people sometimes, particularly if they don’t have an open mind about this kind of stuff.
“Yes we are,” Liam answers first and then each of my husbands introduces themselves in turn. As soon as he has, Conor goes back to chewing on his thumbnail and frowning.
Brooke chats away to me while she sets up her equipment ready for the ultrasound. I remove my panties when she asks and Mikey holds onto them for me, a devious look in his eyes as he takes them from my hand.
I lie back on the bed and when Brooke picks up the wand-shaped object, Liam can’t help himself from shouting out. “What the fuck is that?”
“It’s a trans-vaginal wand,” Brooke replies calmly as she starts to roll a condom over it before covering it with lube.
“The babies are too small to see on a normal ultrasound yet,” Mikey adds confidently and his level of research makes me smile.
“Usually I’d have one of my ultrasound technicians do this, but given the unique nature of your case, I’ll handle all of your care,” Brooke says.
“You mean because I have four baby daddies?” I ask with a smile.
“I was thinking more because you’re married to the Irish Mafia, but yeah that too,” she says as though she’s just called them lawyers or something.
“Oh,” I giggle as Shane frowns.
“Of course that information would never leave this room,” Brooke says with a flash of her eyebrows and I have already decided that I love her.
“So you’re gonna put that thing…?” Liam uses his index finger to point upwards.
“That’s the idea.” Brooke laughs softly before she gives me her full attention. “You ready, Jessie?”
“Yep.” I nod as my eyes dart to the screen beside me.
That’s where we’ll see our babies. That’s where they’ll be if everything is okay.
The screen flickers with grainy images as Brooke inserts the wand and we all stare at it. I’m vaguely aware of Conor moving closer, his soft breathing beside me as he reaches the edge of the bed.
I hold my breath as I stare at the small monitor because right now that is where our world begins and ends.
Brooke is quiet as she presses the wand deeper inside me. She presses a few buttons on the keyboard and I keep holding my breath as I wait for her to tell me that I have a baby, or babies growing inside me and this wasn’t just a huge misunderstanding.
“Is everything okay?” I whisper.
Brooke doesn’t nod or smile. Her face is completely unreadable. “It sometimes takes a few moments,” is all she says.
Conor reaches for my hand and squeezes it in his.
“There they are,” Brooke exclaims with a smile and the collective sigh of relief ripples around the room. She points at the screen and I squint until I see the tiny dots that she is pointing at.
“They?” Mikey asks. “How many, Doc?”
“Two,” she says as she turns to him and smiles.
